Log jetty
Photograph of a jetty made of logs along the Little Missouri River to prevent land erosion in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1964
Your TR Source
Rivers--Environmental aspects
Jetty after construction
Photograph of a jetty made of wood and dirt after construction along the Little Missouri River to prevent land erosion in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1961
Creator(s)
Park staff constructing a jetty
Photograph of park staff constructing a jetty of wood and dirt along the Little Missouri River to prevent land erosion in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1961
Creator(s)
Logs alongside Little Missouri River
Photograph of logs and metal rods with wire placed along the Little Missouri River to prevent land erosion in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1959-06
Creator(s)
Logs alongside Little Missouri River
Photograph of logs placed along the Little Missouri River to prevent land erosion in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1959-06
Creator(s)
Neither crooked nor shady: The Weeks Act, Theodore Roosevelt, and the virtue of eastern national forests, 1899-1911
Char Miller charts the long path that led to the passage in 1911 of the Weeks Act which provided for the purchase of forest lands in the eastern and southern United States by the federal government to protect the adjacent navigable rivers. Miller highlights the efforts of John W. Weeks of Massachusetts who pushed for the legislation as a member of Congress. Miller lists some of the provisions of the legislation, and he notes how the preservation of forest lands was extended to the Appalachian Mountain watershed in the South. Miller argues that combining the preservation of forest lands in the Northeast and South gave the legislation more support in Congress, and he describes how Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt tried to overcome southern hostility to measures by the federal government to purchase forest land.
Photographs of Pinchot and Weeks, two advertisements from the U.S. Forest Service celebrating the centennial of the Weeks Act, and the text of a speech by Roosevelt supplement the article.